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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad #OnThisDay in 1915 for helping 200 Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.

“Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
Photo colorized for The World Aflame. Taken in 1902.

waterstones.com/book/the-world…
She is quoted as saying, "I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved." The Church of England commemorates her in its Calendar of Saints on 12 October.

Cavell was 49 at the time of her execution.
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Grigori Rasputin.

"If it was your relations who have wrought my death, then no one of your family, none of your children or relations, will remain alive for more than two years. They will be killed by the Russian people." - 1916 letter.
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Fridtjof Nansen was born #OnThisDay in 1861.

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The last known photo ever taken of Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born French tailor, who is posing here in a parachute of his own design, before jumping off the Eiffel Tower.
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My grandmother calls me every day to say who should be in the next book. And she's pissed because I said there's no room to have everyone she already suggested.

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BILLIE is coming to select theaters in (US, UK) and virtual cinema on November 13th. To celebrate, here's another photo that I colorized for the film.

It was taken at the Downbeat club, a jazz club in New York City, in February 1947.
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Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1850.

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
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